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TL;DR: I’m working through the Cryptopals Crypto Challenges, starting with knowing nothing about cryptography. These are my (not so) random notes and takeaways from them. Notes From Cryptopals Challenges Set 1 - Basics This was pretty quick and easy set to go through, but I’m glad I didn’t skip it. It introduced ‘repeating key XOR’ and how to break some cyphers ‘statistically’ using letter frequency. The most interesting part of the set was Breaking repeating key XOR and solution...